April 13, 2007–
Nisan 26, 5767
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Contents
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Just
the Facts (service schedule)
The (Occasionally) Ranting Rabbi
Mitzvah/Tzedakkah Opportunities
The
Beth El Bar/Bat Mitzvah Commentary
Required Reading and Action Items (links
to key articles on Israel and Jewish life)
Announcements (goings on in and around
TBE)
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Cantors’ Concert,
Plus Purim photos and our
extensive library of photo albums,
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Shabbat-O-Grams and links to
the Jewish world.
THIS WEEK WE COMMEMORATE YOM
HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE SERVICE, THIS SUNDAY AT
HAVE
YOU SEEN THE
IT
IS A SIGHT TO BEHOLD!
Quote for the Week
The Commanding Voice of
What does the Voice of
Jews
are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories.
They are commanded to survive as Jews, lest the
Jewish people perish. They are commanded to remember
the victims of
For a Jew hearing the
commanding Voice of
Jews after
For after
By the Jewish philosopher Emil Fackenheim,
written in 1968:
Friday the 13th - Part 5766
“Jason and Freddy Make Shabbos”
For Jews, no day brings a greater sense of anticipation and 13 is a very
lucky number – ask any bar or bat mitzvah. So nothing to worry
about today. But just in
case you are concerned, you might want to join us for services…tonight at
7:30.
And BTW, check out the candle lighting time below!
Candle lighting: 7:13 pm on Friday, 13 April
2007. For Havdalah times, other Jewish
calendar information, and to download a Jewish calendar to your PDA, click on http://www.hebcal.com/. To see the festivals of other faiths as
well, go to http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/. The United Synagogue has updated its candlelighting information. To learn more, click here.
Friday Evening:
Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:30 PM
(NOTE LATER TIME) – in the sanctuary
No Tot Shabbat this
Friday, but NEXT Friday it returns
Shabbat and Festival
Mornings:
Service begins at 9:30 AM
Mazal Tov to
ANDREW LANG, WHO BECOMES bAr MITZVAH THIS SHABBAT MORNING!
THE SERMON/DISCUSSION WILL ATTEMPT TO
MAKE SENSE OF THE ISSUES SURROUNDING THIS WEEK’S FIRING OF DON IMUS
Children’s
Services: 10:30 AM
Our Torah Portion
for Shabbat Morning
פרשת שמיני
1: 11:1-8
2: 11:9-12
3: 11:13-19
4: 11:20-28
5: 11:29-32
6: 11:33-38
7: 11:39-47
maf: 11:45-47
Haftarah: Malachi 3:4 - 3:24
If
you liked Storahtelling, you’ll LOVE Storahtelling’s
new weekly blog about the Torah portion Find it at http://storahtelling.blogspot.com/. ORT
Navigating the Bible; Rashi
in English; BibleGateway:
Useful for comparing different translations: Note- this is a Christian site.
What’s
Bothering Rashi (Bonchek) Each
week, one example from the parashah is deconstructed.
See a weekly commentary from the UJC Rabbinic Cabinet, at www.ujc.org/mekorchaim. Read the Masorti commentary at http://www.masorti.org/mason/torah/index.asp. University of Judaism, JTS commentary is at: http://www.jtsa.edu/community/parashah/.
USCJ Torah
THE ENTIRE
HEBREW BIBLE (AS WELL AS OTHER JEWISH SOURCES) CAN BE FOUND
WITH SIDE-BY-SIDE TRANSLATION AT http://www.mechon-mamre.org/
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Blessings: Download information about the grace
after meals (see Birkat
Ha-mazon explained in Wikipedia and in the Jewish
Virtual Library)
The actual prayer can be downloaded at Birkat
Hamazon [pdf]
Morning Minyan
7:30 Weekdays, 9:30 Sundays
I will be observing the yahrzeit of my father,
Rudolph Walzer on the morning of April 20. Thanks again for your
assistance in making the congregation aware of my request for a
"guaranteed minyan" on that date.
TO ENSURE A “GUARANTEED MINYAN” FOR
THE DAY OF YOUR YAHRZEIT – GO TO THE ROSNER MINYAN MAKER AT WWW.TBE.ORG AND ALSO
CONTACT ME AT RABBI@TBE.ORG.
We’ve had several people coming lately
who are saying kaddish following recent deaths in the family. We want to make sure we have a minyan each
day. Your presence any morning is greatly appreciated!
The
(occasionally)
SPECIAL REQUEST FROM THE RABBI
I want to request that all our Bar/Bat Mitzvah class be at services
this Shabbat, along with all 8th graders and teens who can make it.
I don’t typically say this, but this week’s bar mitzvah
d’var Torah might be the most important one you’ll ever hear. It might be among the most courageous as
well.
Yom Hashoah
I received this lovely e-mail today from Cortney Rosenberg, a TBE college
student at the
I just wanted to tell you about the
great speaker Hillel brought in to speak tonight in preparation for Yom Hashoa. He is currently the chief Rabbi
of Poland which means he doesn’t only worry about his own congregation
but governmental relations etc. It was so interesting to listen to him
talk about how after the war the Jews who survived the Holocaust had two
choices to either move from Poland or to give up there faith and how because of
this many of the Jews in Poland are only recently finding out they are Jewish.
I was also astonished at the fact that the average age at his minions is late
20s early 30s. The second we left I told my friend I
had to get back to my apartment and email my rabbi and tell him how incredible
I thought the speaker was. I think the thing that struck me the most was that
it made me think about how so many people here take their ability to celebrate
their Jewish heritage for granted where as there are people out there who are
still only finding out who they are and learning as the go along how to
observe. In reality the experience made me realize
just how lucky I was to be brought up in a safe congregation and given access to
my heritage at an early age.
Thanks,
Cortney
Part of why Yom Hashoah is so meaningful is
that the Holocaust can be a powerful reminder to our younger generation of how
fragile life is and how precious our basic rights – including the right
to be a Jew. That’s why it is
so crucial that all generations find a way to make Yom Hashoah
a part of their lives, this Sunday and Monday. Here are some suggestions as to
how…
The Yad Vashem website can help each of us to fully appreciate Yom Hashoah
and to connect to
The theme of this year’s commemoration in
You can also take time to read from the millions of names and stories
recounted in the vast database at the Yad Vashem
site. See below in our Beth El
Cares section for ways that people can add to that vast list.
Each year, six Holocaust survivors are chosen to
light torches in memory of the six million Jews who perished during the
Holocaust. Their wartime experiences reflect the central theme chosen by Yad Vashem for Holocaust Remembrance Day. The torches are lit during the central memorial ceremony held at Yad Vashem on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Zanne Farbstein |
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Manya Brodeski-Titelman |
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Mordechai (Motke) Wiesel |
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Yaacov (Jacki) Handeli |
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David Gur |
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Ya’akov Janek Hollaender |
Mitzvah/Tzedakkah Opportunties
Beth El Cares
Cathy Satz (968-9191; csscounsel@yahoo.com)Cheryl Wolff (968-6361; cwolff@optonline.net)BETH EL CARES co-chairs
Jeremy Simon’s mitzvah project
Jeremy Simon’s mitzvah project is collecting toys/games for
children in the pediatric unit at
A message from Bat Mitzvah student Emily katz
The holocaust was to "never
happen again". Yet today a genocide
continues unnoticed in Dafur. As we speak over
3.5 million men,women and
children are left starving and homeless everyday. That is the reason I,
have started to raise money for the people of
Click on
http://www.savedarfur.org/page/outreach/view/dollarsfordarfur/EmilyK
Bernier Dance & the Darfur
Support Coalition of
Present
Artists for Peace
an evening of music and dance
to purchase solar cookers for
Saturday,
April 14 at 8:00 pm